Dr. Wingard has published on Southern American literature, contemporary American poetry, and composition. In 1996, his introductory college literature textbook/anthology, Literature: Reading and Responding to Fiction, Poetry, Drama, and the Essay was published. From his teaching of Twentieth Century British/Irish Literature, Wingard has developed a growing interest in Irish life and literature, particularly the work of W.B. Yeats. He offered a seminar in Yeats’ poetry in 1995 and led a May Term trip to Ireland that year. He also retains a strong interest in the life and work of H.D. (Hilda Doolittle), the Modernist poet who was born along Church Street in historic Bethlehem and is buried there, too. Wingard, who has worked as a newspaper reporter and copyeditor, also teaches courses in Journalism and Editing and advises Writing Track English majors at Moravian.

"In my classes, I try to establish and maintain a student-centered classroom, a place where students' learning takes precedence over teacher's teaching. By 'students' learning' I mean their guided self-discovery; by 'teacher's teaching' I mean lecturing, testing, conferring judgment and other forms of authoritarian practice. My philosophy holds that self-motivated, self-directed learning is best, is 'liberal learning' in its best sense of liberating; that in the largest sense the most valuable "lesson" students may learn from literary study is not content but method, not information but process."